Traditionally, New Year is the time to look back at the happenings and achievements of the past 12 months and also look forward to the coming year and set goals and plans, often accompanied by resolutions. I’m not really one for resolutions – I never keep them anyway and my overarching goal this next year, at least in academic terms, is to […]
Read moreRichard writes: As many of you know, as prompted by a seminar by Adrian Holliday (based on his 1992 article) and sessions by former colleague Mike Beaumont, the major revelation from my own MA studies (back in the day) concerned appropriate methodology for TESOL, a very current issue then (before Holliday’s seminal publication on this theme was published in 1994) […]
Read moreAfter spending almost seven weeks in the field, it’s time to take stock of my fieldwork operation. I’m now being at the university in the north of Thailand where I used to work for, so I have found it convenient for me in many ways. In terms of the participant recruitment, I feel grateful that many of my former colleagues […]
Read moreKelly posted this on the PGRS MIE Facebook page, so a lot of you have probably seen it, or at least seen the link. I have just watched it and found it very interesting, but also personally challenging. One of Richard’s 4 ‘C’s for the PhD – which all of you who have the privilege of having him as one of […]
Read moreHi everyone. It has been a year since I started my PhD studies. Looking back at my first year experience, I could not see as to which part of it that many may have described it as the honeymoon year J. It was more like an a–maze-ing journey of being and becoming; an interweaving process from a practitioner to a […]
Read moreMy colleague Adrian Holliday (who many of you will know from his writings) is looking for doctoral students willing to respond to the following questions: 1. What impact has doing a PhD had on your cultural identity? (‘Cultural’ may be interpreted in a number of ways and you are of course at liberty to contest the term or define it […]
Read moreI’m going home next week for my fieldwork and will be there for the whole semester (four months). It has been quite a while since I went through my panel review in January this year. So, what had I done in the past SEVEN months? You might have seen in my earlier posts that I had worked on the ethical […]
Read moreHaving just received the feedback for the 2nd semester’s two assignments, the module of research training is officially completed now. I had enjoyed the experience of developing myself to be increasingly creative, curious and confident in academic exploration. Here I would like to quickly share some of the reflections about my PhD journey in the first year. Before everything began: 3 […]
Read moreThis is a question I have been asking myself over the last couple of days as I started my pilot study. I am doing classroom-based research which means that I am researching my own learners. I’m using normal pedagogic activities to collect my data, so I’m not interviewing students or running focus groups or anything like that, I’m just doing […]
Read moreRather than what I have learnt through the feedback, I would like to reflect on two mental notes I made to myself while actually writing the assignment – and I only did one, so it shouldn’t have been that strenuous a task really. There were moments though when it felt as if I was climbing Everest – the bit near […]
Read moreWriting a panel proposal was quite an adventure to me 😀 starting from finding and understanding the topic, formulating reasonable RQ (s) and so on. As my topic was quite new to me (especially about educational policy and language policy aspects) I had to start by building up my understanding about the elements of my topic. Fortunately, I had quite […]
Read moreAny Induction week reflections to share? Yes . . . a late submission. Thanks for the submissions of other colleagues. My experiences were similar too. Just another version. Bona’s recollections of the 2013-2014 Induction Week Hi all, I guess Richard’s request for us to share our reflections of the Induction week is probably related to the SEED/MIE version in the […]
Read moreI have just had my first Annual Review in the new format with Dr Juup Stelma in the hot seat as independent reviewer, and found it an overwhelmingly positive and thought-provoking process. I was honest about the issues with which I am struggling and the tensions between the framework in which I am working – feminist relational ethics – and […]
Read moreI conducted a pilot study titled “English Language Teachers’ Perceptions of Intercultural Competence: An Exploratory Case Study in a Thai University” in Thailand in June 2013.The main purpose of my pilot study was to try out data collection methods which included semi-structured interviews with English language teachers, a chat with Department Head, classroom observations and documents collecting. In addition, I […]
Read moreWhen coming to Manchester in October 2012, my head was full of ideas about a new developing bilingual education trend in my country i.e. International Standard School (ISS), a type of school which is unique to Indonesia. In other countries, when mentioning ‘International’ concerning education, it usually deals with International students coming from different parts of the world. However, in […]
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